{"id":799,"date":"2017-08-23T00:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T04:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2017-08-23T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T04:45:21","slug":"the-cart-before-the-horse-or-how-too-much-money-lost-georgias-6th-congressional-district-for-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/the-cart-before-the-horse-or-how-too-much-money-lost-georgias-6th-congressional-district-for-the-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cart Before the Horse, or How Too Much Money Lost Georgia’s 6th Congressional District for the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the dust has settled, it\u2019s time for Democrats to analyze what went wrong in the recent effort to turn the Sixth Congressional District \u201cblue.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the one hand, some cite Jon Ossoff\u2019s performance of 48.1% to 51.9% as a historic, if not a miraculous, turnaround of a GOP bastion where previous election results suggest a 60\/40 Republican advantage. Talk of a statewide \u201cOssoff effect\u201d is also a positive sign, as numerous Democrats throw their hats into rings traditionally reserved for the GOP. These observations fail, however, to consider two important factors that contributed to the close-but-no-cigar race that received national media attention: Democratic disengagement in a changing district and the distracting emphasis of money.
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\nThe changing Sixth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most analyses of the recent election cite statistics from days gone by without recalling how the boundaries of the Sixth District have changed over the years. Today\u2019s Sixth is far more urban and closer to Atlanta than the Western and North Georgian district where Newt Gingrich first ousted old school Dixiecrats in a distant 1979. The Sixth District came closer to the city in 2001…[more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Needles
Needles in a Haystack Meeting, Democratic Candidates 2017, Roswell, GA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read the whole article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the dust has settled, it\u2019s time for Democrats to analyze what went wrong in the recent effort to turn the Sixth Congressional District \u201cblue.\u201d On the one hand, some cite Jon Ossoff\u2019s performance of 48.1% to 51.9% as a historic, if not a miraculous, turnaround of a GOP bastion where previous election results suggest a 60\/40 Republican advantage. Talk of a statewide \u201cOssoff effect\u201d is also a positive sign, as numerous Democrats throw their hats into rings traditionally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,322,324],"tags":[45,361,40,416,46,235,320,332,415,327,331,356,326],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ga-06","category-politics","category-richard-keatley","tag-atlanta","tag-democrats","tag-doug-bremner","tag-forum","tag-ga","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-6th-congressional-district","tag-jon-ossoff","tag-needles-in-a-haystack","tag-richard-keatley","tag-rodney-stooksbury","tag-roswell","tag-tom-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforeyoutakethatpill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}